10-03-2012, 20:01
Hi Rubysoho!
I'd just like to comment on the link you put out there. The website is obviously trying to sell bio-identical progesterone cream, which explains a bias against any herbs... Just saying.. Though there definitely might be some truth to some of the things mentioned there, I just can't say what things. I don't think the person that wrote that is especially educated on the effect of the individual herbs, as she seems to be quoting from very few sources (and very few actual studies). I'm always skeptical of people who use anecdotal stories as their reasoning.
Also she goes off on how people buying natural things from food stores don't know how powerful and effective they are on the body, which I think a lot of people on this forum do realize, and I think a lot people do realize that NBE does entail risk.
And I think the real risk she is pointing to is ending up with estrogen dominance. She only knows of two phyto-progestins, "One herb is Maca used by the Peruvians for thousands of years as a fertility herb. The other herb is a Chinese herb that mimics progesterone", the last one she doesn't even state the name of. This forum seems to have had more success than her in identifying useful herbs..
Maybe someone else can comment on the actual relevancy/truth to her statements? I just wanted to point out the obvious bias.
I'd just like to comment on the link you put out there. The website is obviously trying to sell bio-identical progesterone cream, which explains a bias against any herbs... Just saying.. Though there definitely might be some truth to some of the things mentioned there, I just can't say what things. I don't think the person that wrote that is especially educated on the effect of the individual herbs, as she seems to be quoting from very few sources (and very few actual studies). I'm always skeptical of people who use anecdotal stories as their reasoning.
Also she goes off on how people buying natural things from food stores don't know how powerful and effective they are on the body, which I think a lot of people on this forum do realize, and I think a lot people do realize that NBE does entail risk.
And I think the real risk she is pointing to is ending up with estrogen dominance. She only knows of two phyto-progestins, "One herb is Maca used by the Peruvians for thousands of years as a fertility herb. The other herb is a Chinese herb that mimics progesterone", the last one she doesn't even state the name of. This forum seems to have had more success than her in identifying useful herbs..
Maybe someone else can comment on the actual relevancy/truth to her statements? I just wanted to point out the obvious bias.